Do the rich become more or less supportive of redistribution when exposed to poor people
in their local surroundings? Most existing observational studies find that exposure to poor …

In this paper I present a model in which an increase in income inequality can lead to a
decrease in voters' demand for redistribution. In my model, people sort into groups …

In The breakdown of higher education, John M. Ellis (2020) sounds the loudest alarm bell
yet that universities in the USA have become bastions of woke politics, where critical …

In recent years, researchers have grappled with the phenomenon that public demand for
redistribution has not systematically increased in response to rising inequality. Meritocratic …

Debates surrounding the state and local tax (SALT) deduction have existed for decades and
do not appear to be going away anytime soon. 1 Most recently, the House of …

Brown v. Board of Education1 is the most consequential decision of the twentieth century. A
consolidated appeal from school districts in Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia …

The seemingly upward trend in opting out from public services and the segregation of
income groups in public and private education and health systems has raised concerns …

Although previous studies have examined the influence of education on support for
redistribution, studies on how this social cleavage of support for redistribution due to …

This paper examines the puzzle of why economic inequality has not resulted in political
countermeasures to mitigate it, and proposes that the reason is due to misperceptions of …

What is the effect of protests on preferences for redistribution? Although the role of political
narratives in the inequality-redistribution link has been emphasized extensively, there is …